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Red Wings at Panthers When/Where: Sunday, 7:30 p.m; Sunrise TV: FSF Radio: 560-AM Scouting report: The Panthers return home to play the Red Wings for the second time in five days. Detroit's looking to avenge Saturday's 2-1 loss to the Panthers at Joe Louis Arena where they Wings have lost 11 of its last 13. The Red Wings are a league-best 10-3-1 on the road and they'll have star center Pavel Datsyuk and his 23 points back in the lineup after missing the last seven games with a concussion.

- The last time the Panthers came to Chicago the game was delayed 30 minutes because the team bus was held up in a blizzard. Well, with another snowstorm raging outside the Madhouse on Madison, the Panthers were buried under an avalanche of power-play goals as the reigning Stanley Cup champion Blackhawks piled it on in a 6-2 victory Sunday night to snap Florida's modest two-game winning streak. In a battle of special teams, it was no contest as to which team was more special.

A putrid power play, turnovers and porous goaltending basically got former Panthers coach Kevin Dineen fired earlier this month. Well, on Saturday night at a packed BB&T Center interim coach Peter Horachek saw plenty of the same in a 5-1 loss to the opportunistic, star-studded Pittsburgh Penguins. Despite Horachek's tinkering with the 30th-ranked power play by adding a fourth forward in Tomas Fleischmann at the point, the Panthers not only went 0 for 3 with a man advantage in the first period, but actually lost momentum.

The Florida Panthers sent goalie Jacob Markstrom to AHL affiliate San Antonio Sunday morning, setting what could be a new career nadir for the 23-year-old Swede. The Panthers recalled defenseman Ryan Whitney, who cleared waivers Saturday, to take Markstrom's roster spot. Markstrom, the No. 31 overall pick in the 2008 NHL entry draft, was expected to split time in goal with off-season signing Tim Thomas this season, but in 11 games, he only netted one win and had a paltry . 877 save percentage. Scott Clemmensen will start for the Panthers Sunday night against the New York Rangers.

There were at least four television cameras all pointing at Tim Thomas in net during the Panthers' optional morning skate Thursday at T.D. Garden. That was about all the zealous Boston media throng would see of Thomas, as Panthers coach Kevin Dineen spoiled the highly anticipated homecoming for the enigmatic goalie's first return to Beantown where he won two Vezina trophies while guiding the Bruins to a Stanley Cup championship in 2011. Although Thomas has had three straight hard practices, he remained on injured reserve because of a leg injury sustained during the Blackhawks' game on Oct. 22. Thomas was not made available to speak to the local media, who he had an on-again, off-again contentious relationship with ever since he chose not to attend the White House celebration of the team's title in Jan. 2011.

Scottie Upshall scored his first two goals of the season, the second to tie the game with 57 seconds left, but it wasn't enough as the Florida Panthers fell 4-3 to Edmonton in overtime on Tuesday night. Mark Arcobello's second goal of the game — and of his NHL career — came on a power play at the 1:55 mark of overtime and snapped a five-game losing streak for the Oilers (4-10-2) while sending the Panthers (3-8-4) to their sixth straight loss. "Those are points that are slipping away," said Panthers coach Kevin Dineen, whose team picked up one point for the OT loss.

Panthers defenseman Ryan Whitney didn't exactly exit Edmonton on the best of terms. Whitney, who spent 3 ½ seasons with the Oilers from 2009 to 2013, had a few choice words when he parted ways with the Oilers after scoring four goals and recording nine assists in 34 games last year. Whitney suggested other players may have deserved to be benched instead of him in games where he was a healthy scratch, and said, "I'm hoping to sign on a really good team. I've made enough money and I'm hoping to prove [the Oilers]

Traveling to Boston today to pick up the Panthers, who are coming off their sixth straight loss, albeit in another post-regulation affair. These single points aren't cutting it for one of the NHL's bottomfeeders, and certainly not for new owner Vinnie Viola or coach Kevin Dineen, whose seat is getting hotter by the day. I was in New York on family business so I didn't cover the game last night. The Miami Herald caught up to Panthers GM Dale Tallon after the game in the parking lot where they basically got the infamous vote of confidence for Dineen.

Less than 24 hours after ripping everyone but three players on his team for a lack of effort, Panthers coach Kevin Dineen's message seemed to be heard loud and clear. A desperate group of Panthers played as if their families and jobs were being threatened as they clawed back from two one-goal deficits before falling to the Washington Capitals 3-2 in a shootout Saturday night at the Verizon Center, which has been a house of horrors over the years. The 7-7 Capitals may not be Southeast Division rivals any more now that they're in the newly formed Metropolitan Division, but they still own the 3-8-3 Panthers, who they've beaten eight straight times overall and eight in a row in the nation's capital.

The Panthers' last encounter with the Blues was a dose of harsh reality after a feel-good opening to the season. Coach Kevin Dineen bristled Thursday at the mention of that 7-0 trouncing in St. Louis, the day before a rematch in the finale of a six-game homestand. "You get beat bad, a team spanks you, you know what? We're all professionals, we all have pride, we know we took a really good kicking there, so that's how you react," Dineen said. The memory understandably strikes a raw nerve as one of the two lopsided losses in the Panthers' 3-7-2 start.